Site Engineer Contracts in England

Site Engineer
UK > England

The median Site Engineer daily rate in England is £500, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 417 437 500
Rank change year-on-year +20 +63 +117
Contract jobs requiring a Site Engineer 68 105 153
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.28% 0.28% 0.30%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.30% 0.30% 0.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 83 129
10th Percentile £305 £451 £500
25th Percentile £356 £500 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £563 £650
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% -13.46% +8.33%
75th Percentile £625 £698 £713
90th Percentile £725 £850 £765
UK median daily rate £475 £561 £650
% change year-on-year -15.37% -13.65% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £65.03
25th Percentile - - £65.06
Median hourly rate - - £65.25
75th Percentile - - £65.56
90th Percentile - - £65.68
UK median hourly rate - - £65.25

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in England. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in England with a recognized job title 22,549 34,488 47,741
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.59% 92.73% 94.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,007 22,894 33,903
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £409 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £643 £663
90th Percentile £750 £750 £763
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 900 2,432 1,409
10th Percentile £14.20 £13.00 £14.35
25th Percentile £18.51 £16.30 £20.00
Median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%
75th Percentile £63.75 £61.25 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £76.60
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

Site Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured Site Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Site Engineer in England

Site Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Site Engineer in England.

Daily rate trend for Site Engineer in England

Site Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Site Engineer in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Site Engineer in England

Site Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Site Engineer in England.

Hourly rate trend for Site Engineer in England

Site Engineer
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Site Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +27 43 £500 -26.47% 74
South East +37 9 £425 -14.40% 47
South West +40 6 £546 +4.05% 26
Midlands +24 5 £375 -25.00% 36
West Midlands +16 5 £375 -25.00% 21
North of England +6 2 £315 -42.73% 47
North West +11 1 - - 24
Yorkshire +1 1 £315 -42.73% 18
Site Engineer
UK

Site Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Site Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the England region featuring Site Engineer in the job title.

1 68 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 43 (63.24%) Kubernetes
3 40 (58.82%) DevOps
4 32 (47.06%) Azure
5 30 (44.12%) Python
5 30 (44.12%) CI/CD
6 29 (42.65%) Terraform
7 23 (33.82%) Infrastructure as Code
8 20 (29.41%) Prometheus
8 20 (29.41%) Grafana
9 19 (27.94%) Ansible
9 19 (27.94%) AWS
10 18 (26.47%) Docker
11 17 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
11 17 (25.00%) Social Skills
12 16 (23.53%) PowerShell
13 15 (22.06%) Agile
13 15 (22.06%) Observability
13 15 (22.06%) Jenkins
14 13 (19.12%) Service-Level Objective
14 13 (19.12%) C#
14 13 (19.12%) SQL
14 13 (19.12%) Containerisation
15 12 (17.65%) Migration
15 12 (17.65%) Bash
15 12 (17.65%) Splunk
16 11 (16.18%) High Availability
16 11 (16.18%) Linux
16 11 (16.18%) Microsoft
16 11 (16.18%) Azure AKS

Site Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 5 (7.35%) Apache
2 4 (5.88%) nginx
2 4 (5.88%) OpenStack
3 1 (1.47%) Confluence
3 1 (1.47%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 32 (47.06%) Azure
2 19 (27.94%) AWS
3 17 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
4 11 (16.18%) Azure AKS
5 10 (14.71%) Azure Monitor
6 8 (11.76%) GCP
7 6 (8.82%) GitHub
7 6 (8.82%) Microsoft 365
8 5 (7.35%) Azure Data Factory
8 5 (7.35%) Azure Storage
8 5 (7.35%) Datadog
9 4 (5.88%) Azure Sentinel
9 4 (5.88%) Cloud Computing
9 4 (5.88%) Entra ID
9 4 (5.88%) Google Workspace
9 4 (5.88%) IaaS
9 4 (5.88%) PaaS
9 4 (5.88%) Power Platform
10 3 (4.41%) AWS CloudFormation
10 3 (4.41%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (8.82%) DNS
2 5 (7.35%) HTTP
3 4 (5.88%) DHCP
3 4 (5.88%) Kerberos
4 3 (4.41%) TCP/IP
5 2 (2.94%) FTP
5 2 (2.94%) SMTP
5 2 (2.94%) SSL
6 1 (1.47%) BIG-IP
6 1 (1.47%) NAS
6 1 (1.47%) Network Security
6 1 (1.47%) SAN
6 1 (1.47%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (7.35%) Azure SQL Database
1 5 (7.35%) SQL Server
2 4 (5.88%) MongoDB
2 4 (5.88%) Power BI
2 4 (5.88%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (1.47%) Amazon Athena
3 1 (1.47%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (1.47%) Apache Iceberg
3 1 (1.47%) ClickHouse
3 1 (1.47%) Couchbase
3 1 (1.47%) NoSQL
3 1 (1.47%) Oracle Database
3 1 (1.47%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.47%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 15 (22.06%) Jenkins
2 5 (7.35%) GitLab
2 5 (7.35%) TeamCity
3 4 (5.88%) Octopus Deploy
4 3 (4.41%) Git
5 1 (1.47%) Bitbucket
5 1 (1.47%) GoCD
5 1 (1.47%) JIRA
5 1 (1.47%) Travis CI
General
1 17 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 9 (13.24%) Banking
2 9 (13.24%) Finance
3 4 (5.88%) Legal
4 2 (2.94%) International Banking
4 2 (2.94%) Investment Banking
4 2 (2.94%) Presentation Skills
4 2 (2.94%) Public Sector
5 1 (1.47%) Front Office
5 1 (1.47%) Military
5 1 (1.47%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (1.47%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (13.24%) Elastic Stack
2 7 (10.29%) .NET
2 7 (10.29%) ADO
3 6 (8.82%) OpenTelemetry
4 4 (5.88%) JSON
4 4 (5.88%) Microsoft Graph
4 4 (5.88%) YAML
5 3 (4.41%) ARM Templates
5 3 (4.41%) Kafka
5 3 (4.41%) LDAP
5 3 (4.41%) Spring
6 2 (2.94%) .NET Core
7 1 (1.47%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 7 (10.29%) Cloud Native
1 7 (10.29%) Distributed Systems
2 6 (8.82%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (2.94%) Public Cloud
3 2 (2.94%) Social Media
4 1 (1.47%) Clustering
4 1 (1.47%) Data Centre
4 1 (1.47%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.47%) Mobile App
4 1 (1.47%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.47%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 11 (16.18%) Linux
2 5 (7.35%) Unix
2 5 (7.35%) Windows
3 4 (5.88%) Windows Server
4 3 (4.41%) Android
5 2 (2.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (1.47%) Debian
6 1 (1.47%) Oracle Linux
6 1 (1.47%) Solaris
6 1 (1.47%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 40 (58.82%) DevOps
3 30 (44.12%) CI/CD
4 23 (33.82%) Infrastructure as Code
5 15 (22.06%) Agile
5 15 (22.06%) Observability
6 13 (19.12%) Containerisation
6 13 (19.12%) Service-Level Objective
7 12 (17.65%) Migration
8 11 (16.18%) High Availability
9 9 (13.24%) Incident Response
9 9 (13.24%) Software Engineering
10 8 (11.76%) Change Management
10 8 (11.76%) Incident Management
10 8 (11.76%) Microservices
10 8 (11.76%) Problem-Solving
11 7 (10.29%) Root Cause Analysis
12 6 (8.82%) Deployment Automation
12 6 (8.82%) SDLC
12 6 (8.82%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 30 (44.12%) Python
2 16 (23.53%) PowerShell
3 13 (19.12%) C#
3 13 (19.12%) SQL
4 12 (17.65%) Bash
5 6 (8.82%) Bicep
5 6 (8.82%) Go
5 6 (8.82%) Java
6 5 (7.35%) Shell Script
7 4 (5.88%) Groovy
7 4 (5.88%) JavaScript
7 4 (5.88%) Kusto Query Language
7 4 (5.88%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 10 (14.71%) Security Cleared
2 8 (11.76%) SC Cleared
3 3 (4.41%) Azure Certification
4 2 (2.94%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (2.94%) Degree
4 2 (2.94%) DV Cleared
4 2 (2.94%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.41%) QA
2 1 (1.47%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.47%) GDPR
2 1 (1.47%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 1 (1.47%) SLA
System Software
1 18 (26.47%) Docker
2 8 (11.76%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.47%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (1.47%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (1.47%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 43 (63.24%) Kubernetes
2 29 (42.65%) Terraform
3 20 (29.41%) Grafana
3 20 (29.41%) Prometheus
4 19 (27.94%) Ansible
5 5 (7.35%) Progress Chef
5 5 (7.35%) Puppet
6 1 (1.47%) EMC NetWorker
6 1 (1.47%) Netcool
6 1 (1.47%) Podman
6 1 (1.47%) Tivoli
6 1 (1.47%) Tivoli Storage Manager
6 1 (1.47%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 12 (17.65%) Splunk
2 11 (16.18%) Microsoft
3 8 (11.76%) Dynatrace
4 7 (10.29%) Google
5 6 (8.82%) ServiceNow
6 3 (4.41%) AppDynamics
7 2 (2.94%) Oracle
8 1 (1.47%) Atlassian
8 1 (1.47%) BT
8 1 (1.47%) Cisco
8 1 (1.47%) EMC
8 1 (1.47%) IBM
8 1 (1.47%) Isilon
8 1 (1.47%) Pega
8 1 (1.47%) Qualys
8 1 (1.47%) Red Hat
8 1 (1.47%) Serena
8 1 (1.47%) Sybase
8 1 (1.47%) TOWER Software
8 1 (1.47%) VMware